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After Midnight
Dustan Reid has just received his own personal fairy. Straight out of an enchanted forest.
He just doesn’t know it.
Instead, he thinks Harmony is the most annoying, pushy girl he’s ever met. Not that Dustan meets or much less talks to girls. He’s too busy trying to keep his grades up and working at his step-dad’s motorcycle garage—while his stepbrothers work at the art of hanging out. But the freedom graduation will finally bring isn’t too far off.
Harmony’s determined to find true love for Dustan, with or without his consent. He may be a little rough around the edges, but she can totally see the killer looks lurking behind the shaggy hair and thick glasses. So she sets her matchmaking sights on the most popular girl in school. Hardworking Dustan only deserves like the best. Besides, with magic up her hot pink sleeve, this job should be way easy.
But nothing comes without a price.
Especially true love.
Appropriate for grade nine and up.
He just doesn’t know it.
Instead, he thinks Harmony is the most annoying, pushy girl he’s ever met. Not that Dustan meets or much less talks to girls. He’s too busy trying to keep his grades up and working at his step-dad’s motorcycle garage—while his stepbrothers work at the art of hanging out. But the freedom graduation will finally bring isn’t too far off.
Harmony’s determined to find true love for Dustan, with or without his consent. He may be a little rough around the edges, but she can totally see the killer looks lurking behind the shaggy hair and thick glasses. So she sets her matchmaking sights on the most popular girl in school. Hardworking Dustan only deserves like the best. Besides, with magic up her hot pink sleeve, this job should be way easy.
But nothing comes without a price.
Especially true love.
Appropriate for grade nine and up.
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First published May 23, 2012
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Jean Haus
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July 22, 2013
I bought this book yesterday and finished it today. Honestly, it was just to kill some time on my flight home and it turned out that that book was alright. Not amazing, "oh my gosh this is so good this is life altering!!!", but more like,"hmm that was a nice book." Let me tell you why.
First of all, this is a nice fairy story and it's interesting and has great potential. But compared to the more strong voiced series I have read, such as Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series, this just fell short for me. The main character, Dustan is a nice boy who also has great potential for being good-looking enough to catch a couple of girls. What he doesn't know is that the weird girl who suddenly shows up everywhere he is is the one making him better. Throw away some old clothes, get a haircut, break your glasses and BAM! You are hottacular and make all the girls want you. Not sure how the beginning benefits the overall novel, but it does nothing to give you insight as to what the second half will be like.
I like Harmony, I really do. She's a good fairy and has a very strong character voice. But she isn't written to her fullest. And neither is Dustan. All the characters lack that sparkle and shine that any novel character should have. After Midnight definifely brings a somewhat original idea over fairies and the way they are, but it wasn't written in a way that you would feel as if this story has got to be real, has to be alive in your head and you want the characters to be alive, because if they weren't this would just be a book written by some author.
The overall plot is easy to understand, and the whole book is borderline very enjoyable, but I guess I'm still looking for a heart racing novel about anything, a book that makes me.think twice over reality and fantasy. And this just wasn't it.
First of all, this is a nice fairy story and it's interesting and has great potential. But compared to the more strong voiced series I have read, such as Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series, this just fell short for me. The main character, Dustan is a nice boy who also has great potential for being good-looking enough to catch a couple of girls. What he doesn't know is that the weird girl who suddenly shows up everywhere he is is the one making him better. Throw away some old clothes, get a haircut, break your glasses and BAM! You are hottacular and make all the girls want you. Not sure how the beginning benefits the overall novel, but it does nothing to give you insight as to what the second half will be like.
I like Harmony, I really do. She's a good fairy and has a very strong character voice. But she isn't written to her fullest. And neither is Dustan. All the characters lack that sparkle and shine that any novel character should have. After Midnight definifely brings a somewhat original idea over fairies and the way they are, but it wasn't written in a way that you would feel as if this story has got to be real, has to be alive in your head and you want the characters to be alive, because if they weren't this would just be a book written by some author.
The overall plot is easy to understand, and the whole book is borderline very enjoyable, but I guess I'm still looking for a heart racing novel about anything, a book that makes me.think twice over reality and fantasy. And this just wasn't it.
July 29, 2012
This book was an incognita. I read the summary, thought it was interesting and bought the book. Until the end of the first part, I liked it. The second one was completely mad. There are bad fairies, zombie-boy and...? Well, I didn't like it.
November 25, 2012
I have no idea how many stars to give books sometimes! I really liked this book & would read it again. But is it the best book with everything that makes it such? No not really....
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